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Telegram-herald., 1887-02-06
WEST GRAND RAPIDS
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tel- ana "a a. p-Ls rafIufr issi san
-ay nlgal sol l1lo N.l-s d1ca.tg 49,
- h.rei ma r4u-i Pat Douehsrty
aooel a.aE some chores 4eoal lls pfea-
lsss Clian ordered Doeslerly 81 c8t some
t-ei ~. lhs cattle but lls l4-eF b.4usl
rei-sei saying is was sunday shl Al-
ll4t he had % - 81 psrly. and q e.
wanted tas eors done Be sol.i have 10 d.
lt himself t1e farmers vie s.1ed wl.l
he t.re' uau. saving be was '5u.t right
A te6 aIErs words llta passed between lne
tao mrn afler ~hicn Dslsaerty .etg TIE
house He refurDet ia-sr. however. a41
Wcli lo aa1, aAa began 0JrA next dat a
-.4a., 3Dt eFerytu'rr seemed lo MpFe
OK slcolhis Ulr' Friday lIElt whe-
.1e 0ualrs. was renewed Douc-cfty uu
lrrtaoz 80 nll % lp horse aa1 cutter The
farmer asEeg hiln MIA, be was dong l1a
ia-. and hs salt Mrs quinn told ~ /.
and tlsn he bssan 20 whistle. Cllnl too
1lm ca retara tle herse - the bara az once
out he refused. saying be wotlA so ~ Do
pleased. Quinn tnen struck Din severe
uion l the lace Whese.r1u tie two men
c.llcLot ans pounded eacl- other o.a. an1
llle. uuil e-ills vile Tan oLt an-
g. rev lersrlt cr. Weeu them. bJltlerty ll
The meantime drew q 30. se--i rite and pro
posed - rp his opponents id hear.
o-t whertupou tlc farmer rau lnfo the
house Cog las gun o-- when Ae returned
O0ugherly was living across iuls and lasl
been seen since. DOgsheitv Aas been work
ing for Qai1n i1r the fa-f Els months and
was a good workman bat was .IUie over
beanne In bi. manner generally dong the
OurO-lte 20 h,s master 8 wishes Quinn is
quite bad cut about the face aud his
optics are dlsco.0rsd-
A pleasant recital was gwen lsst evening
by the pupils OF tue advanced class In elO
cutiOn 81 the residence at Paul hutsche, o.
Summer-s1. The children showed that they
have improved rapidly since their last en-
teftaiument. and their e.IOrts were warmly
applauted. One OF The features Of the pro
gramme was the either solos By OtlO
kulslle.
Miss Theresa Greg.ich was buried yesier-
day morning at NJ. C.yslsy. The funeral
occurred from 81. Nays church Tue
floral offerings were numerous and hand
some 4 large number of friends and rela
tives cOng.egstet at The church and 'oi-
lowed tie remains 20 thei- last resting
place.
Germans Council No. - Order Of Chosen
Friends, gave a -luerade party ar AOflen
hail on West DiyisiOn-sf. last nj ght. The
attendance was large, the costumes gor-
n3der Inc carefai direction Of smith q
Gutban orchestra.
The funeral o. the late John Goebel will
occar from 81. Mary's Catholic church al 5
ciOcE tomorrow morning. The members
OF the Arbiete, ana Cermania s0cleues viii
sligl" the int'etal ~. ~ o2.s. Inc iei'a'i's
VIII Dc '-'eiieD a ''' away
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preside over Tie
state senste White
the election ~ hob
crt = Roberfs1nfar
lieutenant governor
WAS IN dispute sen
aforS Smith. sspIessi-
dent cf the senate,
claimed the right q
assume the duties
Of the position. IT,
mai-tain his pos
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ton T. t and soon brut up al enormous
trade iu h4fdN4re ard fuissTs' Quits
reneesny Later - went " Csllicr
la ~n1i became one ~ IL wosilhiest
citizens lie had unaounced faith 10 tae
cause at ths north dlr-rs tie ~Ar, putting al
as money int0 government bonds at so~
.r.css In 1874 he raIle east Aua turning al
l.s god i1Io erosab4cks ~ t1e bg premium
tatu prevailing he made i4rfo real es-atS ln
vesttu-ats u Sew York aud Boston, Which
have svelei enormously "a h.s hands he
prorcs.s u have a iaw. saelical and uusec
tar.an t4eo.oslcal school attached 20 his rnl-
sersltg. ~ wei Is "a acai.nlll department.
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rIrs. CIexeland,s New Pet.

Baron dc Itajuba. the Brazilian minister.
has given a marmasct 10 Mrs. Cleveland.
Telegram-herald., 1887-02-06
1he cante.t IN InalanA

Tnis Is a portrait of Sen2tcr Alcnzo Green
smith. a. Indiana. contestant for the right o.
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+ Fster ~ remove his taa store ~
flst rs fre orr recent. 3 rsra-e1 -r fhf f~.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24
The orators Of the Day.

The woes of the Fourth are not ali pyrotech-
ME- There win be other explosions orator.
cal catastrophes which, unfortunately, are
more apt 30 distress those who hear than
those who perpetrate them. The most ardent
lover Of his country quails as heeyen distantly
oontemplates these rhetorical compounds OF
patriotic fervor and freedom. We have q
history, to be sure, and we ought to
Yevere ID, but when it is served up in
the same style and quantities year after
year one longs to say something against
swain repetition The battles Of Lexington
and Monmouth and Saratoga are vigorously
fought over our sweltering and helpless bod
les Benedict Arnold is caught and roasted
for the millionth time, and every orator,
metropolitan and provincial, savagely stirs
up the Goals. We are dragged on our per-
spring way from Bunker Hill to the Chesa,
peake, and get frost bitten at Valley Forge
and pocket CORVALLIS at Yorktown with
equal indifference and resignation The
Fourth Of July orator makes us earn our
freedom over again every year, and when he
is coupled with a balloon ascension and the
inevitable fireworks one needs the courage
and endurance Of our forefathers to confront
him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24

Samuel Adams, the chief promoter.
But of all of the advocates Of independence,
Samuel Adams was. perha s. the most power
full. The most arSieHt of republicans was he
He was poor, and knew many privations, and
yet contemned money. Honors, emoluments,
and even power he never sought. But TO the
cause Of independence he gave his time and
ability. Long before his contemporaries
spoke Of liberty he saw the star of freedom
that was destined to shine over America.
Robot Treat Paine and Elbridge Gerry
were there; Francis Lghtfoot Lee, Richard
Henry Lees younger brother, the gay and
good hunored, was there; Benjamin Harrison,
father of future president, was there, chair
man Of the committee OF the whole, which
has just reported ON the Declaration. The
mild and philanthropic Carter Braxton
was there in place of the late lamented
Peyton Randolph, the first president of the
continental congress, who had died six
or seven months before. And there too, was
the noble hearted Thomas Nelson, of Vir-
ginia. He was the mover of these instruc-
tons in the convention of Virginia, passed on
May 10, under which Richard Henry Lee Of
fered the original resolution of independence,
on June z. And there could be seen the sturdy
front of Roger Sherman, native Of Massa-
chusetts, but then delegate from Connect.
cut, ''that old Puritan, as honest as an angel,
and as firm In the cause of American indie
pendence as Mount Atlas said John Adams
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24
SUPERINTENDENT FREE PRESS

this continent 10 the other, from this time
forward forever. You win think me trans
ported with enthusiasm, but am not. am
well aware Of the toll and blood and treasure
it will cost rs to maintain this Declaration
and defend these states. Yet through all the
gsoosnI can see che rays Of ravshing light
and glory. Yesterday the greatest Question
was decided which ever was debated In
America, and greater, perhaps, never was
nor viii be decided among men. A resolution
was passed without one dissenting colony
that these United States are, and Of q right
ought to be, free and independent states.
"Of the proceedings of congress upon this
eventful day no record has been preserved.
Not line of its eloquence Is left to u.s. We
are better acquainted with the speeches de-
livered In the Roman senate and the Roman
forum, with the debates of the English par
Lament in 1641, with the harangues of French
Jacobins or English reformers, than with the
grand discussion Of the principles of liberty
and progress which made US a free people
1--WE only know that John Adams spoke
with such power that, in the words of Jeffer-
son, he moved the members from their seats. )
It was the voice of the new world remon-
strating against the decadence of the old
"More than 100 years OF progress have
raised 100, 900 Of men to q new sense of
freedom. America is republic, Europe has
pressed on toward liberty, the world il nearly
free. The Fourth of July has become the an
niversary most noted in the annals Of man.
kind. the birthday Of human freedom, the
epoch of uAbounded hope.n
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24


the selfishness of CASTE and in Europe he saw
only the sorrows and degradation of the
many under the heel of the favored and idle
few. In France, which to some OF his eminent
countrymen, even Franklin and John Adams,
seemed the land Of pleasure, he saw only the
helpless people under the hand OF tyranny.
It was then that he wrote to friend in
America, GAbove all things educate the
people" He saw clearly that no free institu-
tions could exist without knowledge; that the
schoolmaster must rule in his new nation-or
80 must perish. Like Franklin, jefferson was
no speaker. he sat silent IN the sessions Of
congress. On that memorable ID Of July he
took no part in the debate, but he wrote
with wonderful fire and grace, and to his
burning pen was committed the task of pre-
pairing that immortal document, the Declara-
ton OF Independence, which enforced for all
ages the doctrine Of universal freedom.
Another equally ardent republican from
Virginia, Richard Henry Lee, was absent
from the congress. Born to wealth and ease,
he longed for a republic in which were no
cruel distinctions separating man from man.
But Patrick Henry WIS there.
And there. too, was John Adams, of Massa.
chusetts, he who in early life had pinned for
an ideal elevation above bis fellows He had
spent twenty years in Philadelphia, Paris,
London, and the Hague, and was yet unsatis
fed He was now 40 years old, and as
speaker he helped forward the new republic.
A greater orator from Massachusetts, was
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24

And Richard Stockton, of New Jersey,
who had doubted the propriety OF the
measure, and had been won over by "the ir-
resistible and conclusive arguments Of John
Adams" And the president Of the congress,
the glorious John Hancock See him In his
chair, the same chair in which Washington
was to sit eleven years later as president OF
the convention which framed the constitution
of the United States. He was not yet 20
years Of age, had princely fortune at stake
and price upon his head. There he sat In
the calm dignity which no viclssitude OF life
was ever able 10 ruffie
"Behold himl He has risen for a moment
He has put the question. The Declaration is
adopted. 1t is already late in the evening,
and all formal PRONUNCIATION of the days
doings must be postponed. After grace Of
three days the air viii be vibrating with the
joyous tones of the old bell IN the cupola over
his head proclaiming liberty 10 all mankind
and with the responding acclamations Of as
sembled multitudes Meantime, for him,
showever, a simple but solemn duty remains
to be discharged. The paper is before
him he dips his pen and, with an un-
trembling hand, proceeds to execute sigma
ture, which, as Webster said, has made
bis name as imperishable as IL it were
written between Orion and the Pleiadss.' :
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24
Queries for Independence Day.

What has been the history Of the time since
the signing of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, in regard to the people of America3
Are they as virtuous as they were in 17762
Are they as manly? Are they as intelligent
Are they as religious9 Not only that, have
they learned anything In the highest of all
arts-the art of man to live with man? The
art Of organizing society, of conducting gov
eminent, the promotion of the common veal
through broad spaces and through vast null
titudesl What is the history Of the peopiea
What are we today3 What our fathers were
we know. Their life was splendid, their his
tory was registered. We read what they
were, and form an estimate OF them with
gratitude to God; but what are we, their
children? Have we shrunkf Are we
unworthy of their names and places
and functions, which have been trans
mitted from their hands to onrsa What are
the laws, what are the institutions, what Is
the government, what are the policies of this
great nation, redeemed from foreign thrall to
home independence Are they committed to
puny hands, or is manhood broadened and
strengthened and ennobledi Look, then, at
our population, what it is, spread abroad
through all the land We have called the
world TO be our father and the father Of our
Cuhul Sti duu pOsUeTlJt, anu tDeIe never was
a time in the history of this nation when the
race stock had in it so much that was worth
the study of the Psychologist and philanthro-
pist as now. The augmentation of power, of
breadth of manhood, the promise of the
future, is past all computation, and there
never was, there never began to be, In the
early day such promise for physical vigor
and enriched life as there is to-day upon this
continent.
Il has been said that 'the art of living
healthily has advanced immensely, and
though cities have enlarged, and though the
causes Of dangers to sanitary conditions are
multiplied, science has kept pace, and
there never was a time in the history
of any nation on the globe when the condi.
lions Of life were so wholesome, the condi-
tons of happiness so universally diffused, as
they are to-day in this great land. 1t is i'm the
power OF a man TO earn more III ten
years Of his life today than for our ancestors
in the whole of their life. The heavens are
nearer to us than to them, for we have learn
ed the secrets of the storm and the sweep of
the lightning. The earth itself is but just out
side our door. We can now call to Asia easier
than they could to Boston 100 years ago All
the fleets of the world bring hither the trib-
utes of the globe.
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shores of the Egean, aud meditated from
the acropohs ON tue rights of man. The
Greeks Invented the principles of the COM
monwealth The half inspired intellect of
Greece founded a series of republics that
faded one by one before the influence of caste
and slaEsry. A Latin race took up the con-
ceptfon Fhe plebeians Of Rome discussed
beneath their seven hills the rights of man,
the theory of universal suffrage, the equali-
cation of property and the principles of the
public veal But slavery disappointed all
their hopes. Freemen disappeared. Society
knew but two classes, the efslaying and the
enslaved.
Emigration cultivated all western Eu-
rope; but the theory of a republic vanished in
a universal tyranny. The republics Of the
middle ages-rude, coarse, severe, yet pro
gressive-fen into the hands of tyrants. The
reformation came and republics sprang up
with free thought. Yet in the Eighteenth
century every one had persisted except Swift
zerland, and as Samuel and John Adams, Jay
and Lee surveyed the dim stream of history,
they mighrewell tremble to find its shores
strewn chiefly with the wrecks of freedom,
and monarchies aud despotisms alone -four
ishing where once had stood the dawning
fabrics Of human equality.
"More than 100 years of rational progress
have familiarized the mind to the widest
strides of liberty. The great foundations of
the republic--toleration equality, educa-
tion-seem no longer new But when the
patriots of ING, Ia the midst Of the bar
baRous Eighteenth century, proposed them to
the world as the basis of legislation, the world
scoffed at them as II they were mad It is
quite impossible, indeed, for any one to con-
ceive without intense study how far man has
advanced in the last 100 years; how miserable
was his condition in ell countries in 1776 One
can scarcely realize how miserable was the
human race amidst the barbarities of kings
and mobiles 100 years ago; what tears were
shed; what horrors endured by those who
have since become the sovereign people.
The chief trait of the Eighteenth century
was it's intense inhumanity. No one cared
for the sufferings of others, and no one, ex-
cept few philosophers and few Americans,
had discovered that the majority Of men were
not born to suffer forever The great seig
neurs Of France beat, robbed and murdered
their peasants with no sentiment even of
shame; the English lords, bishops and princes
defended their cruel laws. while all the ocean
was covered with slave ships, and the horrible
wealth of every civilized nation was won
from the woes of the helpless Africans. Ell
ropean cruelty and avaFioe had forced slavery
upon the fresh fields of America, had planted
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24

the PRONUNCIATION of this act of offense and
defiance TO all loyal authority. But there
was no individual responsibility for that act,
save In the signature of John Hancock, presi-
dent, and Charles Thomson, secretary. Not
until Aug 2 was the young Boston merchant
relieved from the perilous, the appalling
grandeur Of standing sole sponsor for the
revolt Of thirteen colonies and 100000 of
people
ain that congress were many opposing
voices. But the voice Of the outraged people
had not called in vain, and it was as their
representatives that Adams, jefferson and
Lee founded a republic and snatched Amer
ioa from British tyranny forever"
While the congress deliberated in Philadel-
phia war stalked over the land. The patriots
Of New York, while they steadily voted for
independence, saw the great English fleet
riding securely in their harbor and heard the
signal guns which proclaimed that armies,
greater than any they ever beheld, were
landing on Staten Island. On the coasts of
New England lu.ked British cruisers. A great
feet threatened the southern harbors, and the
ruins of Norfolk showed there was cause to
fear. From New York to Georgia the scalp
ing knife of the Indian was the assistant of
the invader. In the Declaration of Independ-
ence Jefferson tells the story of the woes that
possessed the land. amidst the clamor of
war, the clash of contending armies, in the
presence of thousand perils and of dark
and ominous future, the people, enraged, res
olute, unyielding, went calmly to the polls
and voted for Independence
Small and obscure was the party of indie
pandence at the first sitting of the congress
in 1774. But the cruelty of the mad king,
George III, during the intervening time
reused the people even before it aroused their
leaders. Says Eugene Lawrence, writing on
the theme of independence
show often had men sighed for land in
which honest Industry might enjoy its prudent
gains and drte. win a eeStain tolerancei
How often had the wise and pure of every
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24
FOR MY coUNTRps SAKE.

The Beauty and Dignity of True Pa
triotism.
From q speech delivered at Peekskill on the
Fourth Of July, 1876, by Henry Ward
Beecher, we extract the following paragraphs
on the country's elepents of growth and the
beauties Of patriotism:
Look back, then, through the hundred years
Of our national history They are to me like
the ascending OF stairs, some of which are
broader, some narrower, some with higher
rising and some with less than the others; but
ON the whole there has been a steady ascent
In intelligence, In conscience, in purity, in in
dustry, In happiness, In the art of living well
collectively, and we stand to-day higher than
at any other time. Our burdens are flea
bites.
In another hundred years, not one of us
VIII be here. But IL does not matter SO much
70 US who come and 60, or what takes place
IN the future, except 50 Tar as our influence is
concerned. When hundred years hence the
untelling sun that saw Arnold and Andre
and Washington. but win not tell us one
word u history, shall shine ON these en-
chanted hills and on this unchanging river
then It Is for US to have set In motion, or to
have given renewed impulse to these great
causes, intellectual, moral, social and politf-
Nt@Ag WAAS-A AA-'c ASAAO1 OoA PASopCAA1y W buCh
height.
To every young man here that is beginning
life, let me say: Listen not to those insidious
teachers who tell you that patriotism Is a
sham, and that all public men are corrupt or
corrupters. Men in public or private life are
corrupt here and there, but let me say to you,
no corruption In government would be half 30
bad as to have the seeds of unbelief in public
administration sown In the minds of the
young. II you teach the young that their
chief magistrates, their cabinets, and their
representatives are Of course corrupt, what
viii that be but to teach them to be themselves
corrupt stand here to bear witness and say
that publicity may consist with virtue and
does There are men that serve the public for
the public, though they themselves thrive by
it also. would SOW in your minds romance
Of patriotism and love of country that shall
be necessary to the love which you have for
your own households, and / would say to
every mother that teaches her child TO pray,
next TO the petition, sour Father which art in
heaven" let him learn the petition, ~0ur
Fatherland," and so let our children grow up
70 love God, to love man, and to love their
country, and TO be glad TO serve their country
Is well as their God and their fellow men,
though IL may be necessary that they should
lay down their lives TO serve It.
honor the unknown ones who used to